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Author Topic: Peoples thoughts on the new Mantic Orcs?  (Read 9029 times)

Offline rob_alderman

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Re: Peoples thoughts on the new Mantic Orcs?
« Reply #30 on: March 19, 2011, 10:55:46 AM »
The characters look much better. Awesome even.

I like that they have bulk, but a good sense of real barabarism, not a comic barbarism. Their legs look like they hold a certain weight, which is great!

I really, really like that standard bearer. I hope the final plastics look cool, because I'll be wanting some I think...  ::)

Offline Viper

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Re: Peoples thoughts on the new Mantic Orcs?
« Reply #31 on: March 19, 2011, 05:09:22 PM »
Completely agree about the characters.

The few pictures of the basic orc I'd seen didn't really work for me. I think the head just looked too stupid with too long a jaw and strange head...though perhaps a helmet would take the edge off that effect.

With the characters though they look brutal and dangerous, but also like they have a lot of intelligence too.

I wasn't at all surprised to learn it was McVey who had sculpted them as he really is brilliant, even his models in which I don't like the subject matter I can fully appreciate as being amazingly well sculpted from a more objective standpoint.

Having the mounted one riding a boar is a bit of a shame as I would have liked to see them on large mean tempered horses or perhaps something totally different, but I know that they want to be suitable as alternative figures for Warhammer Fantasy aswell. That aside the "Gore" is one of the best boars miniatures around.

Certainly at the moment I could easily see me picking up the characters for skirmish games even if the plastic orcs don't quite work for me.
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